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My Phase 1 Project

My phase 1 project for FACS2930 Electronic Landscape class is an html/css/javascript project where we research into a topic of our interest that must have connections with the arts and technology, and from this we have to gather a collection of quotes which relate to the topic of our choice, then lay them out into a meaningful layout through codes and stylesheets.

Now I’m fascinated with everything video games and it is one of my hobbies and interest. I am a gamer and I’m proud to say that. There’s nothing wrong with loving and enjoying video games, from the playable contents which we all love all the way back to the creation process of a game. Video games in general can and are often compared to other art forms and this in and of itself is a heated argument that has been discussed back and forth by quite a bit. Nonetheless, I am still interested in this topic which is why I picked it as my phase 1 project concept: “Video Games as Art”.

The idea behind the way I laid out my project 1 pages was that I wanted to present the topic of video games as art as neutral as possible, because I feel that there in this topic, there are different perspectives from which you can look at it from and all of these perspectives are neither correct or incorrect. Each and every one of these perspectives will have their own bias, which is why I feel it is better to look at this topic as a neutral observerer and have the viewer decide for themselves whether video games are art.